Originally ransom was demanded for the release of life. It used to be said, ‘your money or your life’. Now ransom is demanded for data release. Slowly and steadily, as humans have crept along the technology curve, life has transformed into packets of data.
Category: Reflections
Difficult mantra…
“Let go” the two magical , short and simple words are replete with confusion and difficulty. Whether flowing from ancient philosophical thought or the Whatsapp message of a friend, these two words are doled out as advice, as a solution and as a way of life.
Chronicling life
Chronicling our lives for our witnesses is something we strive for throughout. It is what gives our existence meaning and value.
A memory of Santorini
After eighteen years spent in Greece, Mr. Khaleel provided us shelter and warmth, welcoming us from the moment we had peeped in the door. It is these people, along with the likes of Sundar Pichai and Indra Nooyi, who carry the flame of their home country abroad.
Let my batteries charge
People seem to have lost their sense of proportion. Interactions are losing quality and an age of ‘impressionists’ has begun. This artificiality of relating to each other through verbosity, ‘forwardosity’ and ‘instantisity’ through a click is upsetting. It has dehumanized and brutalized us.
Lazing in the sun
Did the sun muddle my brain? Or is it important to bring contentment back into the reckoning?
Of Heritage and Identity
….little did I know that while discovering Athens and Greek heritage, my Syria experience would tug at the heartstrings.
What they see
Outside it continued to snow, and millions of light years away, Earth was relegated to ‘wait and watch’.
Remembering Aleppo
I write this memoir of Aleppo not as an obituary to that vivacious city, but as a reminder to its people and all of us. Cities like Aleppo survive, they grow back, rebuild and rebound
End year musings
I guess, at last I have understood why it is important to celebrate the dawn of the New Year. Whatever day, month or time it is – all cultures and parts of the world have their new year demarcated.
themindprism - sadhna shanker 